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The 18 Most Wonderful British TV News Fails Of 2014

You can prepare for everything. Except when someone assaults you with a sex toy live on air.

1. When a weather front shaped like a penis emerged off the coast of Cornwall.

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2. When the BBC committed one of the all-time subtitle fails to see in the Chinese New Year.

3. When ITV News called Ed Miliband "Labour Party Lady".

4. When the BBC's North West Tonight hired a presenter with a most uncanny name.

5. When Sky News' Ian King kept his cool when his Autocue failed.

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6. When a BBC newsreader said Prince William had spoke of his passion for flying "despite having left the IRA".

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He meant the RAF. Easy to confuse the two.

7. That time weatherman Tomasz Schafernaker had a stark warning for festivalgoers, according to this subtitle.

8. When Sky News politics editor Adam Boulton swallowed a fly live on air.

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9. When a Sky Sports News reporter got a dildo in the ear on transfer deadline day.

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10. When shadow chancellor Ed Balls was attacked by a spider live on air.

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11. That time it looked like the BBC News Channel ticker said the Queen had tested positive for morphine.

12. When BBC newsreader Martine Croxall missed the start of a broadcast.

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13. And when the same thing happened to her again a few weeks later.

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14. When Sir Paul McCartney did a bodyswap with Manchester United's Juan Mata.

15. When this BBC Look North presenter mysteriously sank.

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16. This BBC Breakfast subtitle.

17. There was also that time a dog did its business behind BBC Breakfast weather guru Carol Kirkwood.

18. And when Good Morning Britain's Susanna Reid asked actor Dan Stevens: "You must have had to beat off a lot of American men?"

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